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A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient

Gonzalez Alvaredo, FacundoIcon
Fecha de publicación: 03/2011
Editorial: North-holland
Revista: Economics Letters
ISSN: 0165-1765
e-ISSN: 1873-7374
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de recurso: Artículo publicado
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When a very top group of the income distribution, infinitesimal in numbers, owns a finite share S of total income, the Gini coefficient G can be approximated by G⁎(1 − S)+S, where G⁎ is the Gini coefficient for the rest of the population. We provide a simple formal proof for this expression, give a general formula of the relationship when the top group is not infinitesimal, and offer two applications as illustrations.
Palabras clave: GINI COEFFICIENT , PARETO DISTRIBUTION , TOP INCOME SHARES
 
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/192542
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176510003460
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.10.008
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Gonzalez Alvaredo, Facundo; A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient; North-holland; Economics Letters; 110; 3; 3-2011; 274-277
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